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07 May 2016

AgustaWestland scam Tyagi Brothers accept dealings with middlemen
The Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate is probing the corruption and money laundering in AgustaWestland scam

Recently Italian Court sentenced Italian defense and aerospace major Finmeccanica's former chief Giuseppe Orsi and the former CEO of the firm Bruno Spagnolini on corruption charges in the sale of a dozen AgustaWestland helicopters to India for VVIP use.

To fast track the money trail in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) wrote to eight of its missions abroad to send reports about executions of letter rogatory (LR), sent by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

As per reports the former board member of Aeromatrix, Gautam Khaitan, has purportedly admitted to having received payments from middlemen Carlo Gerosa and Guido Haschkhe in the VVIP chopper deal. He has allegedly admitted setting up IDS Tunisia, a subsidiary of IDS India, the firm which was one among the many through which the alleged bribe was routed by the middlemen from AgustaWestland to other countries.

As per media reports Tyagi brothers have more or less admitted to their links with middlemen

As per reports Tyagi Brothers received more than 3 lakh euros from the middlemen to swing the deal in AugustaWestland's favour. Most of the remittances were paid to them during the tenure of SP Tyagi as air chief between 2004 and 2007

The probe has revealed that Tyagi brothers received euro 1.26 lakh after March 2004 and euro 2 lakh? after Feb 2005.